A quick video showing some of my favourite C64 quirks: BASIC interpreter crashes, an easter egg (or two), floating point variable oddities, and more.
Index:
0:00 Intro / Midwest Gaming Classic
1:44 REM Shift-L bug
2:38 ?””+-0 crash
3:46 ?0+””+-0 hard crash
4:31 Hit Stop+Restore keys, then: POKE 781,96 : SYS58251 “screen saver”
5:40 M FFF6 Robert Russell / Bob Yannes
7:11 350720 crash
8:36 A=A+0.01 float rounding error
11:07 9^X exponent float rounding error - ERRATA: I (and the C64) made a mistake here, by 9^9 the rounding error has increased to a whole number, so the number displayed is one greater than it should be!
Links
Midwest Gaming Classic: http://midwestgamingclassic.com/
Commodore 64 BASIC: All 32 Errors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V1wFXKHTgw
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